A short walk to Venus -- The chemist's warning : a short history of global warming -- The heaven bursters : Tuvalu and the fate of nations -- The great reversal of human progress -- Ecological debt -- The carbon debt -- Rationalising self-destruction (or why people are more stupid than frogs) -- The car park at the end of the world -- Pay back time : the law, climate change and ecological debt -- Data for the doubtful : the lessons of war economies -- The new adjustment -- Minerva's owl.